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Costs of Downloading Music and Video Files from Third Party Mobile Sites Is Stated For All 5 UK Operators by Reviewing the Current Pricing Plans Offered To Prepay and Postpay Consumers inside Recent Report.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c31452) has announced the addition of Mobile Content Delivery: Direct to Consumer to their offering.

Across the board, digital media retail brands and content providers are unhappy with the commercial models used to deliver mobile content directly to consumers. The frustrations are the same everywhere: PSMS PSMS Premium Short Message Service
PSMS Physical Self-Maintenance Scale
PSMS Puget Sound Mycological Society (Seattle, Washington)
PSMS Piecewise Stationary Memoryless Source
PSMS Personnel Status Monitoring System
 outpayments from mobile operators are too low and standard data charges make the delivery of heavyweight music and video files too expensive for the user. This report describes solutions for both of these problems.

How to Avoid Premium SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM.

(2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server.
 and Minimise Data Charges

* Problem Description

* Premium SMS

* Data Charges

* Solutions

* Credit/Debit Cards

* Financials

The report starts by reviewing the direct-to-consumer (D2C The U.S. government's term for the Ampex DD2 format. See DD2. ) mobile content business model. The value chain is described and the report shows how revenue collected from the user by the mobile operator via PSMS is distributed to the various players. An alternative strategy is then described that can be used to dramatically improve the revenue payout pay·out  
n.
1. The act or an instance of paying out.

2. A percentage of corporate earnings that is paid as dividends to shareholders.
 in favour of content and retail brands.

Next, the costs of downloading music and video files from third party mobile sites is stated for all 5 UK operators by reviewing the current pricing plans offered to prepay pre·pay  
tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays
To pay or pay for beforehand.



pre·payment n.
 and postpay consumers.

Two commercial models are then explained which would dramatically reduce the data charges incurred by consumers, thereby making the download of large files viable.

The first model would apply for branded players that want to develop their own end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved.

Compare: turn-key solution.
 while the second model could be implemented as a mobile content delivery and payment platform, optimised for D2C, which would be attractive to companies that are happy use an off-the-shelf solution. Outline technical solutions are provided for both models.

The pros and cons pros and cons
Noun, pl

the advantages and disadvantages of a situation [Latin pro for + con(tra) against]
 of both models are identified for all players in the value chain including content owners, mobile operators, mobile aggregators and content retailers.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c31452
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